Regenerative medicine is an exciting field, a discipline that encourages the natural healing properties of your body so that they work more efficiently without drugs or surgery. When it comes to younger-looking skin, exosomes are transforming skin rejuvenation with a minimally invasive, low-downtime treatment.
Dr. Nancy Magsino and her team at Optimum Women’s Care in Katy, Texas, use exosomes as part of their aesthetic dermatology services.
Exosomes are key communicators in the intercellular world, helping to control and guide healing processes. We take a closer look at exosomes in this blog so you better understand what they are and how they work to make your skin look spectacular.
Scientifically, exosomes are extracellular vesicles. Hmm… that doesn’t help make things clearer. Extracellular vesicles are defined as “lipid bound vesicles secreted by cells into the extracellular space.” Basically, that means exosomes are tiny blobs of fat excreted by your body’s cells.
Perhaps the best way to understand them is as couriers that move between cells, sharing information about work that the cells themselves are doing. To that end, they contain substances like genetic material, growth factors, peptides, and proteins — things your body needs to coordinate healing processes.
So, what can exosomes do for your skin? Well, boosting the supply of natural exosomes provides your body with resources beyond those that the circulatory system delivers.
Using our courier analogy, having more repair instructions seems to mean faster repair. In practice, this leads to skin support like:
In practical terms, you’ll see changes in the mirror, such as:
Exosomes help with the process of collagen production. The most abundant protein in your body, collagen is essential for youthful-looking skin.
Yet, as you get older, the amount of collagen in your body starts to decrease, and there’s no natural mechanism to top it up. Collagen production does respond to injuries, however.
Exosomes can help with restorative aesthetic treatments like microneedling, which improves skin appearance by creating a deliberate and controlled injury field. Applying exosomes after a microneedling treatment delivers biological couriers right to the source of skin rejuvenation. Exosomes boost the already impressive skin improvements that microneedling can make.
Find out more about the healing power of exosomes by contacting Optimum Women's Care. Call or click to request an appointment today.
